Jonathan CorbetInterview
Linux kernel contributor, editor (LWN)
Adapted from Jonathan Corbet's interview on Uses This, published 28 May 2012. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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One other nice touch is the Logitech diNovo Edge keyboard.
The laptop is an HP 2510p with a nine-cell battery.
I also have a pile of early OLPC XO 1.75 laptops around, useful for ARM development work.
The pockettop is my trusty HTC Nexus One.
I do also have a Nokia N9 that I use sometimes.
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I've been keeping an eye on Notmuch but haven't been able to make that transition so far.
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It's running CyanogenMod 7, of course; alas, it looks like an Android 4-based CM for the Nexus One isn't in the offering anytime real soon.
The primary desktop machine is running the Fedora Rawhide distribution.
The production systems are running CentOS, but we continually consider just biting the bullet and paying for an enterprise Linux distribution so we can legitimately gripe when the security updates are late.
Needless to say, I would go insane without SpamAssassin.